Asshole Design (web edition)

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Similar to an “Asshole Design” gripe fest but with a specific focus on #enshitified websites. It’s also a discussion on how to improve your web UX.

crappy design candidates are also welcome here (we just call the community asshole design because that’s the most common scenario)
discussion of defense practices is encouraged - we are broader than just registering gripes. In fact, hopefully self-defense tips is the most common theme of the threads

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[ew] CF site forces long cookie interview and gives the boot to Lynx (web.archive.org)

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First attempt to load this shitty Cloudflare page resulted in a forced cookie popup with no “reject all” option. There are ~50+ or so switches to click off spanning two tabs (one hidden way at the bottom in fine print for “vendors”). Fuck that.

Usually when I encounter this particular variety of shit I switch to “torsocks lynx '$URL'”. In this case, it gave a 403 claiming “enable javascript and cookies to continue” to Lynx.

Then I loaded the archive version in Firefox with js and animations both disabled, and finally the text was reachable. But then an animation at the bottom played anyway. So I had to disable still images to stop the animation (guessing the ad is an animated GIF).

What a disasterous display of web enshitification. Feel free to comment on how one might handle this in a more effortless way without agreeing to the cookies.

(asshole design candidate: #homebarista)

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